In the content of all pages the characters are displayed correctly. When editing the menu content everything looks fine, even in the menu.php created by the Menu Writer they display the way they should.

If you have a look at the main navigation on the left, go to Peru Info / Peruvian Personalities / José Quiñones (the 4th one...). If you actually open that particular page, you can see right in the header that the "é" and "ñ" are displayed corectly in the text.

The menu points are typed in by hand via the "edit menu structure". After you mentioned that the menu.php looks wrong I opened it up again and on the Design View it looks fine on my side. Checked the Code View and figuered out that the "é" and "ñ" are there in plain text. I replaced them now with &eacute; for the é and &ntilde; for the ñ. Now it works fine

I still don't understand why MenuWriter doesn't generate the output correctly. I'm happy to use the workaround by editing the menu.php but everytime I make a change via MenuWriter it overwrites everything and I have to do it again. Perhaps it is somehow related to the fact, that I'm using a spanish interface (windows, dreamweaver, keyboard...).

Commonly used character encodings on the Web include ISO-8859-1 (also referred to as "Latin-1"; usable for most Western European languages), ISO-8859-5 (which supports Cyrillic), SHIFT_JIS (a Japanese encoding), EUC-JP (another Japanese encoding), and UTF-8 (an encoding of ISO 10646 using a different number of bytes for different characters). Names for character encodings are case-insensitive, so that for example "SHIFT_JIS", "Shift_JIS", and "shift_jis" are equivalent.